To Report a Missing Person

Government Approaches

Alberta Justice and Solicitor General approaches the issue of missing persons in several ways:

Missing Women Working Group

Since February 2006, a missing women working group — with officials from federal, provincial and territorial governments — has been meeting about the high number of murdered and missing women in Canada.

The group includes members from justice and public safety departments in Alberta, British Colombia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. The group is co-chaired by Alberta and British Colombia.

Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women

Our ministry’s Victims Services Unit is in the midst of a two-year, federally-funded initiative about the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. This funding ends in February 2015.

Goals of this initiative include:

Identifying the needs of missing persons, and developing a victim services response

Identifying culturally relevant supports and services for Aboriginal people, recognizing that Aboriginal women are over-represented as victims of homicide

Missing Persons Groups

Several non-government groups in Alberta are dedicated to the issue of missing persons:

KARE Unit — examines the deaths of “high risk” missing persons and uses new strategies to prevent women at risk of violence from going missing